Hidden Hands - A Different History of Modernism — Season 1, Episode 3: A Clean White World
Documentary • 30 min • 1 season, 4 episodes • ★ 10.0/10
Episode synopsis
Modernist architecture as a reaction to, and proposed solution for, the squalor of 19th-century city life. Also the similarity between the impulses that drove the Modernist architectural ideal, and the later health and purity obsessions of European fascist states.
About Hidden Hands - A Different History of Modernism
Art movements were rife with hocus pocus during the early part of the twentieth century. Commissioning Editor Waldemar Januszczak as part of a major arts series looking at the history of Modernism.